It’s A Goal!
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Helping employees set and reach goals is a critical part of every manager’s job. Goal setting provides a mechanism for managers to provide ongoing feedback and coaching to help employees achieve more in the workplace.
There are 2 types of goals:
- Learning goals which involve tasks where skills and knowledge can be acquired.
- Performance goals which involve easy-to-accomplish tasks that will make one appear successful (thus tasks where error and judgment are possible are avoided).
The focus of this workplace learning method is to define the steps to carry out a learning goal.
Get employee to draft his own goal.
Assist employee to refine goal to be ‘SMART’ (Specific, Measurable, Attainable,Realistic and Time-bound).
Ensure that employee adds timeline to the goal to make it a ‘SMART’ goal.
Get employee to explain how he plans to meet the set goal.
Help employee understand who he is dependent on to achieve those goals.
Help employee think of solution to possible problems.
Provide ongoing feedback and coaching.
When employee faces obstacles, get him to think about possible solutions.
When goals aren’t met, discuss with employee what went wrong.
Get employee to brainstorm possible solutions to current issues and make another attempt at reaching the goal.
- Organisation / management
- Provide career opportunities for ‘workplace learner’ to grow in the company.
- Provide sufficient resources and guidance to support ‘workplace managers’ and ‘workplace learners’
- Workplace ‘trainer’
- Involve ‘workplace learner’ in the goal setting process.
- Provide ongoing feedback to ‘workplace learner’.
- Provide meaningful learning experiences linked to goals.
- Take personal responsibility of your own career growth.
- Ask questions if you need more details of your goal.